Comments on: Why You Can’t Have Nice Things

By: Toxic Geeks: The Outspoken Customer is Always Wrong « How Not to Run a Game Business

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:08:15 +0000

[...] a lot of the points I’ve been making in this thread. Allow me to quote from a particularly fantastic article: One of the first things you learn in any marketing program is that you not only don’t have to [...]

By: Why the OSR might not matter… « stefan poag

Why the OSR might not matter… « stefan poag — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 14:34:01 +0000

[...] I’ve been away from the internets for a while (barely logged on in for 2 weeks), so I’m still kind of feeling “out of touch,” but I’m interested to note that heady discussions of who or what the ‘Old School Renaissance’ is and what they (or we(?)) should be or want to be continues. Like here. And here. [...]

By: Steph C

Steph C — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:47:16 +0000

Around every hobby is an industry to support it!

By: Steph C

Steph C — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:24:29 +0000

I used to work in a gaming and comic book store and I can assure you that the writer of this article raises only valid points. We’d have a tabletop day and a single 40k player ran off customers and other players with his awful attitude.
It’s OK to want to be in this industry because you love what you’re doing but it’s painful to discover that the people you’re trying to connect with are often socially awkward or outright sociopaths.

By: admin

admin — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 05:07:04 +0000

I’m gonna let this commenter through despite the late date because it cites Ayn Rand, which means I can intellectually eat and shit the commenter at my leisure.

Anyway, you failed out the gate. You seem to think I am pining for your attention. Instead, I am explaining why you don’t get *my* attention when it comes to creative work, despite the fact that I like RPGs and most gamers. You showed up half a year after this post to tell me you don’t need me.

Listen, I guess this video sums up my feelings.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlhOUyy4wbs

By: Guest

Guest — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 04:50:19 +0000

I think this entire blog post is naive. The music, film, TV, novel and gaming industries….any entertainment industry…they all suck for the content provider, unless a hegemon (e.g. you’re D&D, Lady Gaga, Harry Potter or Glee).

It was summed up for me by a quote by Russell Crowe regarding the acting and music industries; “If you choose to go into the entertainment business, then bear in mind that the world owes you nothing.”

These industries are not what Ayn Rand had in mind when she wrote Atlas Shrugged. To paraphrase a lyric, “What the world needs now is another roleplay game designer, like I need a hole in my head.”

So go ahead and rail against the toxic audience, saying you abandoned them. The truth is that there are many more where you came from, and as Warhammer 40K says, “you won’t be missed.” Gamers make easy targets because geeks love to call geeks geeks, which just redoubles the hypocrisy of this blog post. Go ahead and fire us as customers, we owe you nothing, and you’re not needed.

By: Deigo@triop.corp

Deigo@triop.corp — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 23:07:50 +0000

Before I knew about DrivethruRPG, I desperately needed some PDF versions of DnD books I already had. I had a packaged set suggested to me that included all of them. Upon downloading this, I felt like I was cheating, and never touched the books again, eventually deleting them.

Why blame gamers for not knowing of a viable consumer alternative? I’ve since bought books from drivethruRPG as often as I could, and that isn’t very often- but when I can’t, I always come up with something that I can use under an open license or offered for free by the creator, even making my own settings and connected optional rules based on what makes sense for the setting and what I think would improve the system’s portrayal of it.

What drove me to buy into PnP was playing NWN1 online, in an RP server.
I’m still looking for a group, and am now focused more on White Wolf products.

I have not “stolen” any of them, and still buy them whenever I can. I may build characters with the intent to make them more focused on doing particular things, but I Roleplay the consequences as much as possible.

And yeah, if there’s anything particularly awesome, I am even more determined to get whatever contains it- I’ve yet to find a Mage campaign near me, but I won’t give up.

By: Imaginary Entertainment Environments, Transmedia, and the Old-School Renaissance « The Mule Abides

Wed, 24 Nov 2010 18:23:59 +0000

[...] exactly tailored to our needs as gamers, it’s not worth paying for; complaints that role-playing gamers relate to commercial transmedia content in a cynical fashion don’t surprise me at [...]

By: Ian M

Ian M — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:18:41 +0000

Your utter certainty must be a great comfort to you.

By: admin

admin — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 19:09:12 +0000

False dichotomy.